The French Have Had A Week Of Very Heavy Fighting
on the heights north of the Aisne. The enemy, after repeated attacks on Friday week and Saturday last, gained ground near Cerny, in the centre of the Chemin dee Dames, but they......
The Success Of The Russians In The First Battle Of
the Revolution is of the highest importance both to them and to the Allies. Whether General Brussiloff can develop the victory is a minor matter. He IMO already done far more......
The Weekly Return Of Losses By Mine Or Submarine Again
shows a welcome decrease. Last week we lost fifteen merchantmen over 1,600 tons—five less than the week before, and ten less than the week before that. In the five weeks ending......
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Sir Douglas Haig Has Continued His Methodical Advance...
the Vimy Ridge. At the end of last week he cleared the strong defences on the Souchez River covering Lens, and also took more than a mile of the enemy's front line further......
Enemy Aeroplanes, Twelve Or Fourteen In Number, Made A Raid
on Harwich early on Wednesday morning. They were quickly driven off by gunfire and by our aircraft, though not before they had dropped bombs, killing eleven persons and wounding......
The Battles For Supremacy In The Air Were Not On
so large a scale or so intense last month as in April or May, when 717 and 713 aeroplanes were put out of action, but the summary in Tuesday's Times shows that the superiority......
The Voyage Of The First American Contingent To France Was
rot, it appears, without incident. Mr. Daniels, the Secretary for the Navy, has announced that two separate convoys were waylaid by enemy submarines at different points far out......
News Of The Week.
T HE resumption of the Russian offensive is the great eventof the week. On Sunday last, after two days of violent bombardment, the Russians attacked on a wide front in Galicia......